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You mentioned earlier that you liked 4 or these examples' indie albums more than the follow ups. You know, I will haw to go back and listen to surfer rosa again. I remember loving it but loving Doolittle more. Surfer rosa is ALOT more rough and intense, that can be attributed at least in part to Steve albini, but now that I have thoroughly listened to Doolittle I think it's time for a little re visiting. _________________ -Ryan
Interesting... either they have correlation, but not causation, or becoming mainstream is really where it is at :).
I had little time to write this... I guess what I mean is, I just watching a doc on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" album. In it Gilmour said that they were just trying to do whatever it took to be rich and famous, and this is him saying it today, not a quote of him when he was younger. I differentiate that because of two things: when you are a young musician who is poor, that is kinda what the goal is for most I suppose, but also because punk rock hadn't really taken off yet, or at least the ethos wasn't widely accepted.
If a statement like this was made today, Pink Floyd would've been shunned by this community. We would have called Gilmour Bono.
I think putting labels on music is a disservice to music, to be honest. Genre, mainstream, indie, alternative, underground, etc.
Music should be labeled good and speaks to my soul, or bad, it doesn't speak to my soul... the end.
However I am curious if pressure put on musicians, and putting them in limitations makes them perform and write more focused... hence a possible explanation of why when a "indie" band become "mainstream" puts out their "best" works because they are more forced to and have producers over their shoulders, etc. to "motivate" them to push themselves.
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